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Robb, Martin (2019). Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities. Abingdon: Routledge.

Jones, Kerry and Robb, Martin eds. (2024). Men and Loss. New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. Routledge Key Themes in Health and Society. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Montgomery, Heather and Robb, Martin eds. (2018). Children and young people’s worlds (2nd edition). Policy Press.

Clark, Alison; Flewitt, Rosie; Hammersley, Martyn and Robb, Martin eds. (2013). Understanding Research with Children and Young People. London: Sage.

Robb, Martin and Thomson, Rachel eds. (2010). Critical Practice with Children and Young People. Bristol: Policy Press.

Robb, Martin ed. (2007). Youth in Context: Frameworks, Settings and Encounters. London: Sage.

Barrett, Sheila; Komaromy, Carol; Robb, Martin and Rogers, Anita eds. (2003). Communication, relationships and care: A Reader. London: Routledge.

Jones, Kerry; Murphy, Sam and Robb, Martin (2024). We can’t play with them, but we can play for them’: fathers uniting in grief through football. In: Jones, Kerry and Robb, Martin eds. Men and Loss. New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. London: Routledge.

Robb, Martin (2019). Wanted men? Gendered discourses in work with children and young people. In: Robb, Martin; Montgomery, Heather and Thomson, Rachel eds. Critical Practice with Children and Young People, 2nd edition. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 219–237.

Ruxton, Sandy; Robb, Martin; Featherstone, Brigid and Ward, Michael (2018). Beyond Male Role Models: Gender Identities and Work with Young Men in the UK. In: Kulkarni, Mangesh and Jain, Rimjhim eds. Global Masculinities: Interrogations and Reconstructions. India: Routledge.

Robb, Martin and Ruxton, Sandy (2018). Young men and gender identity. In: Montgomery, Heather and Robb, Martin eds. Children and young people’s worlds. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 141–156.

Robb, Martin; Featherstone, Brid; Ruxton, Sandy and Ward, Michael R.M. (2018). Family relationships and troubled masculinities: the experience of young men in contact with care and welfare services. In: O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna eds. Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 72–84.

Robb, Martin (2014). Disseminating research: shaping the conversation. In: Clark, Alison; Flewitt, Rosie; Hammersley, Martyn and Robb, Martin eds. Understanding Research with Children and Young People. Published in association with The Open University. London: SAGE Publication Ltd., pp. 237–249.

Robb, Martin (2010). Men wanted? Gender and the children's workforce. In: Robb, Martin and Thomson, Rachel eds. Critical Practice with Children and Young People. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 185–199.

Robb, Martin (2007). Gender. In: Kehily, Mary ed. Understanding Youth: perspectives, identities and practices. London: Sage, pp. 109–145.

Robb, Martin (2007). Wellbeing. In: Kehily, Mary ed. Understanding Youth: perspectives, identities and practices. London: Sage, pp. 181–213.

Robb, Martin (2007). Relating. In: Kehily, Mary ed. Understanding Youth: perspectives, identities and practices. London: Sage, pp. 313–344.

Robb, Martin (2003). Men talking about fatherhood: discourse and identities. In: Barrett, Sheila; Komaromy, Carol; Robb, Martin and Rogers, Anita eds. Communication, Relationships and Care: A Reader. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 121–130.

Robb, M. (2000). Men working in childcare. In: Foley, Pam; Roche, Jeremy and Tucker, Stan eds. Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave/The Open University, pp. 230–238.

Robb, Martin (2024). Hidden from Family History: The Ethics of Remembering. Genealogy, 8(2), article no. 51.

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Robb, Martin (2024). Hidden from Family History: The Ethics of Remembering. Genealogy, 8(2), article no. 51.

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Robb, Martin (2021). ‘Men, we just deal with it differently’: researching sensitive issues with young men. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(5) pp. 617–625.

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Robb, Martin (2020). ‘From Your Ever Anxious and Loving Father’: Faith, Fatherhood, and Masculinity in One Man’s Letters to His Son during the First World War. Genealogy, 4(1), article no. 32.

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Xu, Yuwei; Warin, Jo and Robb, Martin (2020). Beyond gender binaries: pedagogies and practices in early childhood education and care (ECEC). Early Years, 40(1) pp. 1–4.

Robb, Martin (2020). Fathers and Forefathers: Men and Their Children in Genealogical Perspective. Genealogy, 4(2) e65.

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Jones, Kerry; Robb, Martin; Murphy, Sam and Davies, Alison (2019). New understandings of fathers’ experiences of grief and loss following stillbirth and neonatal death: a scoping review. Midwifery, 79, article no. 102531.

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Ward, Michael R.M.; Tarrant, Anna; Terry, Gareth; Featherstone, Brid; Robb, Martin and Ruxton, Sandy (2017). Doing gender locally: The importance of ‘place’ in understanding marginalised masculinities and young men’s transitions to ‘safe’ and successful futures. The Sociological Review, 65(4) pp. 797–815.

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Featherstone, Brid; Robb, Martin; Ruxton, Sandy and Ward, Michael R.M. (2017). ‘They are just good people…generally good people’: Perspectives of young men on relationships with social care workers in the UK. Children & Society, 31(5) pp. 331–341.

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Tarrant, Anna; Terry, Gareth; Ward, Michael R.M.; Ruxton, Sandy; Robb, Martin and Featherstone, Brigid (2015). Are Male Role Models Really the Solution? Interrogating the ‘War on Boys’ Through the Lens of the ‘Male Role Model’ Discourse. Boyhood Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8(1)

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Robb, Martin (2004). Exploring fatherhood: masculinity and intersubjectivity in the research process. Journal of Social Work Practice, 18(3) pp. 395–406.

Robb, Martin; Larkin, Mary and Deepak Gopinath, Manik (2023). Relational Care - with Mary Larkin and Manik Deepak-Gopinath [Podcast]. Careful Thinking.

Robb, Martin (2021). Boys and Fatherhood. In Childhood Studies - Oxford Bibliographies Oxford Bibliographies Online - Childhood Studies, Oxford University Press.

Taverner, Phil; Larkin, Mary; Vseteckova, Jitka; Kentzer, Nichola; Horne, Jo; Penson, Martin; Robb, Martin; Berry, Alex; Spencer, Melinda and Methley, Abigail (2020). How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond? Open Learn, Milton Keynes.

Vseteckova, Jitka; Kentzer, Nichola; Horne, Jo; Robb, Martin; Larkin, Mary; Berry, Alex; Spencer, Melinda; Methley, Abigail and Taverner, Phil (2020). The effects of self-isolation and lack of physical activity on carers. Open Learn, Milton Keynes.

Vseteckova, Jitka; Kentzer, Nichola; Horne, Jo; Penson, Martin; Robb, Martin; Larkin, Mary; Berry, Alex; Spencer, Melinda; Methley, Abigail and Taverner, Phil (2020). Young carers,COVID-19 and physical activity. OpenLearn, Milton Keynes.